The Dead

It is not my first time to go to Black Box to see a show, but this time, there’s another reason why I go there, because of the performance. I am in IB liter & perf, so this course requests me to perform in the class, but I have no idea about performance, so this time I go there to see the varsity performance, look their settings and what will they do when they do not have lines to speak, how would they interact with other characters, so I went. 

First I know the setting about the show, there are many chairs, which means there are many characters in the show, how would they arrange the show. In the beginning, the lights points on the chairs, which gives a feeling about noble and dignity, so I would assume that this must be a talk between many nobles, not a basic conversation. And as the show continues, I begin to pay attention on John, I want to watch his actions and to know why he can play the character like the character. For the section one, I love the arrangement of the play, which includes the lights, the introduction of the characters, and also the division between waiters and visitors, first I would figure out by their costumes, and then I would figure out that their actions are also different, waiters only listen to visitors command to do things, but for the visitors, they can do whatever they want, they can express their emotion, like what did Freddy Malins on the party. But for second part, I really love the interaction between John and Sam, they really do the conversation like normal on the stage, not like repeating the lines, when I looked at John’s actions, his speaking did not interfere his actions. His emotions changed very naturally, for example I remembered that there is one place Sam song a song on the party and John never heard before, John did not only say that” Oh, this is the song I never heard before.” But also he just his actions to emphasize this feeling, he gave a shrug to show his feelIng. Also after the visitors all gone, John sat and talked with Sam, and suddenly he knew that his wife’s first lover and that man was died for Sam, he was very angry and John was waiving his hands to show his angry, and then he considered a lot because he can feel his wife’s sadness, so which gives a deep understand on how to perform a character, also I love the lines that John spoke several times:  The world is a surface of the frozen lake, we walk along and we slip, we want to keep our balance and not fall, but one day there is a crack. So we can learn that underneath us is an unimaginable depth. “ Before the show starts, John spoke it once time, at that time I was thinking about the weather, the cold weather made the John say this. However, after the show, I understood that he used analogy to describe his wife’s first lover as a crack, which made me feel sad and also can feel John’s helplessness, he is alive, but at which point, his mind is died.